From: Achilleas Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: i have table
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 10:32:55 +0300
Message-ID: <200610051032.55610.achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4523D51F.4070208@myemma.com>
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Στις Τετάρτη 04 Οκτώβριος 2006 18:37, ο/η Erik Jones έγραψε:
> Aaron Bono wrote:
> > On 10/4/06, *Erik Jones* <erik@myemma.com <mailto:erik@myemma.com>>
> > wrote:
> >
> > There is one non-SQL related reason that I like to be able to order
> > columns, at least the way they are displayed whenever the table is
> > described: human comprehension. For example, I like to group all
> > keys
> > in a table before data, that includes primary as well as foreign
> > keys.
> > So, say I'm building on to an existing application and I need to do
> > an ALTER TABLE on an existing table to add a foreign key to an existing
> > table. I'd like that key to be listed with the other keys, but presently
> > that's not possible in a simple way and, to be honest, I usually just go
> > without as the process you've described below is too prone to user
> > (human) error when dealing with live, sensitive data for me to want to
> > mess with it.
> >
> >
> > Ah, but it is possible... if you use views.
> >
> > I recommend you build views and query off them. Then you can control
> > the order the columns will appear.
>
> Which would be great if I didn't have (many) thousands of lines of code
> that already use the tables. Besides, this is no where near a 'make or
> break' thing. It's just a matter of aesthetic preference.
Alright, you could play with something like:
UPDATE pg_attribute SET attnum = <your number of ordering> where
attrelid=<your tableoid> and attname='<your column name>';
but do some research of possible bad side effects.
--
Achilleas Mantzios
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